The Royal Danish Ballet is legit. They’re one of the most respected ballet companies in the world, and they’re now being shaken up by an extensive cocaine scandal.
Apparently the art director Nikolaj H├â┬╝bbe has a pretty bad problem with it, as he’s at the heart of the problem:
A secret internal report of the company members’ use of drugs, particularly cocaine, was leaked to the Danish press, and since then several disgusted dancers have quit the company. The scandal is centered around the Danish Royal Ballet’s artistic director Nikolaj H├â┬╝bbe’s allegedly serious cocaine problem, although the report censors almost all of the passages refering to H├â┬╝bbe.
The translated second paragraph of the leaked report notes “escalating drug abuse problems among dancers over the past two years, among these escalating problems with cocaine abuse. It is important to emphasize here that people not employed by the ballet, but with various connections to the ballet, have also reported rising concerns about the escalating drug abuse problems.”
If this is true, then shame on everyone involved. You don’t get to be as old and respected as the Danish Royal Ballet by doing Charlie Sheen Handstands in mountains of cocaine.
You do it with discipline, talent, and respect.
It’ll be interesting to see if they can reform.
[Image via AP Images.]
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